North Korean companies participate in a trade fair in China on August 23 at 17:22
While North Korea participates in a product trade fair held in Northeast China and there is no prospect of lifting the sanctions, it seems that there is an aim to gain foreign currency by strengthening economic cooperation with China, a traditional friendly country .
The trade fair is located in Changchun, Jilin Province in northeastern China. It starts from the 23rd and is organized by the Ministry of Commerce of China and other companies from 28 countries including Japan, South Korea, and North Korea.
In the opening ceremony, a speech North Korea's Kim Young-jae foreign economic phase, "Kim Jung Eun (Kim Jong-un) Workers' Party Chairman, this up to five times, met with Xi Jinping Jintao, the relations between the two countries to a new stage We will continue to strengthen our cooperation with all countries that are friendly to us. ”
From North Korea, more than 20 companies participated, and the booth was lined with sake and tea.
Of these, many Chinese women visited the booth for cosmetics, and bought lots of lotions and moisturizing creams using ingredients extracted from ginseng.
A North Korean salesman was enthusiastic about "I want to monopolize the Chinese market with products made at our factory."
In the background of North Korea's participation in the trade fair, there is no prospect of lifting the sanctions, and it seems that there is an aim to acquire foreign currency by strengthening economic cooperation with China, a traditional friendship country.